http://lauren.vortex.com/ en-us lauren@vortex.com 2010-09-09T11:52:12-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000754.html Greetings. I hadn't planned to be blogging anything for now regarding the launch of Google Instant (GI). It was all over the media yesterday, including a nice spot on NBC Nightly News. But a troubling note I received this morning... 754@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-09-09T11:52:12-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000753.html Greetings. Yesterday, in New "Shark" AT&T Ad and Bizarre Blog Posting Attempt to Ridicule Net Neutrality, I suggested that the bizarre "Church of Extreme Net Neutrality ('CoENN')" terminology used throughout a recent posting on AT&T's official Public Policy Blog seemed... 753@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-09-07T11:38:40-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000752.html Greetings. Very recently in Free Press, Lauren Weinstein, Google, and Net Neutrality and The New McCarthyism of Google-Baiting Spreads Its Stain, I expressed strong condemnation of particular tactics being used by certain groups both in support of Net Neutrality (a... 752@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-09-06T18:32:45-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000751.html Greetings. Last Friday, in a posting titled The New McCarthyism of Google-Baiting Spreads Its Stain, I expressed my concerns regarding what I view to be disgraceful tactics that have been recently employed by some parties in the ongoing debates regarding... 751@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-09-05T14:37:41-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000750.html Greetings. It's a truism that history tends to repeat itself. Sometimes this occurs in unexpected ways, and the rise of what I'd call anti-Google "New McCarthyism" is an object example of this particularly disappointing state of affairs. GOP Senator Joseph... 750@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-09-03T21:44:30-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000749.html Greetings. Reactions to the Verizon-Google Legislative Framework Proposal have been splattering around the globe ever since the two firms announced the plan earlier this month. The proposal has some clearly worthwhile elements, yet is problematic in other aspects. Much more... 749@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-08-26T13:20:17-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000748.html Greetings. This evening, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviewed Congressman Ron Paul regarding the controversy surrounding the proposed building of the Cordoba House community center and mosque ("Park51") in New York City. It's hard not to feel somewhat embarrassed for Dr.... 748@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-08-23T21:33:32-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000747.html Greetings. Earlier this week, in Google Buzz Meets the New York City Mosque Controversy, I noted how Google Buzz was proving invaluable in discussing the controversies surrounding the New York City Cordoba Community Center and mosque project. That thread, which... 747@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-08-20T21:04:53-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000746.html Greetings. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I'm using Google Buzz more and Twitter less. An ongoing thread in Buzz, on the topic of the controversial Muslim community center and mosque to be built two blocks from the... 746@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-08-16T12:59:00-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000745.html In today's New York Times, Eric Pfanner suggests, in essence, that vibrant broadband competition can obviate the need for Net Neutrality per se. In fact, it's basically axiomatic that widespread, effective competition -- of the sort that dominant ISPs have... 745@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-08-15T11:59:13-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000744.html Greetings. Now that the recent Google/Verizon proposal has moved the spotlight firmly back onto Network Neutrality and Open Internet issues, with reactions that are -- to say the least -- running on high, I feel inspired to present -- oh... 744@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-08-14T14:52:13-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000743.html Greetings. It's now four days since Google and Verizon published their joint policy proposal for an open Internet. Today, Google posted an additional document, addressing what they view as the misconceptions being promulgated in various negative reactions to the plan.... 743@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-08-12T15:08:26-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000742.html Greetings. Unless you're living under a rock (and perhaps even then) you no doubt are aware of the many rather strident reactions to the Google/Verizon joint policy proposal that the firms announced yesterday during a conference call (and that I... 742@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-08-10T12:21:26-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000741.html Greetings. A joint (very short notice) conference call between the Google and Verizon CEOs has completed. Very brief nutshell from my notes: 1) The firms vigorously deny that they made any carriage or related deals. They declared recent reporting to... 741@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-08-09T11:53:45-08:00 http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000740.html Greetings. In Evil or misunderstood? Google and net neutrality posted earlier today, David Megginson speculates that a key issue in the now widely-known (but little understood) recent "secret" meetings between Google and Verizon might have been discussions regarding giving particular... 740@http://lauren.vortex.com/ 2010-08-08T18:44:36-08:00